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I'm not just talking about skin color.
by ummonk 4y ago
I'm not just talking about skin color.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> not just talking about skin color Steve Jobs is ethnically Syrian. Most people would call him white. The fact that some e.g. North Africans may fit the classic conception of whiteness better than many Europeans doesn’t dissolve every racial boundary therebetween.
- howinteresting 4y agoIf Jobs had grown up in (say) New England rather than California, there is no way he would be have been treated the same as white people there. He would have clearly stood out.
- jefftk 4y agoReally? Looking at some pictures of him when he was younger (ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#/media/File:Steve_Jobs_in_1972_Pegasus_(retouched).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#/media/File:Steve_J...) I think he would have been lumped in with other white kids here.
- howinteresting 4y agoIt's hard to tell from a black and white photo.
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- zajio1am 4y agoMiddle eastern and north african people are generally considered white here in Europe. Using 'white' just as synonymum for 'european-ancestry' is some recent US quirk.